let's take you straight to listening into the counsellor rachel reeves. banning exploitative zero-hour contracts, unscrupulous fire envy higher practices, strengthening sick pay and bringing the outdated unfair conflictual industrial relations framework that we inherited from the conservative government into the 21st century. that is a choice this government is making. another choice, one i know was very close to the former president's heart, our decision to extend

school meals to an extra half a million kids, to lift children out of poverty, that is a difference a labour government makes and a testament to mary's campaigning. now, i know that there is another political party which will tell your members that they have working people's interests at heart. so remember this and tell it to the people that you work with. while labour is levelling up workers' rights, nigel farage and reform oppose the employment rights bill. while labour is investing in the national health service, nigel farage and reform want to privatise it. while labour is investing in our security and allies, nigel farage and reform

are not on the side of the heroic people of ukraine, but on the russian side instead. tough on workers, soft on patients but soft with putin. we are making progress. it is just one quarter, but recent numbers show that britain to be the fastest growing economy in the g7. for cuts to interest rate since august last year, saving working families taking out new mortgages hundreds of pounds every year and real wages have risen more in the first ten months of this labour government than they did in the last ten years of the conservative government. i know that not enough working people are yet feeling that progress and that is work tomorrow's spending review is all about. making working people better off. investing in our security. investing in our health. investing in our economy. this

government is going for growth. because that is the best way to create jobs, boost wages, lift people out of poverty and sustainably fund schools, hospitals and all public services we rely on. we are doing things differently. because unlike the tories, i don't think that the only good thing the government can do is get out of the way. i believe in an active government. working alongside industry and trade unions to drive shared prosperity. that is why we will be publishing a modern industrial strategy later this month, an industrial strategy based on genuine partnership between government, industry and trade unions. and that is why tomorrow, we will be allocating an extra £113 billion of investment, maintaining public investment at its highest sustained level since the 1970s. and unlike the tories, i know that we can't build a strong economy on the

contribution of just a few people, a few industries or a few parts of our country. we are going for growth. growth in every part of our country. with benefits felt in every part of our country. so we are investing right across britain. that is why i was pleased to announce last week the biggest ever investment, £15.6 billion in transport links within our city regions and surrounding towns, better linking up liverpool with st helens. manchester with stadt rochdale, sheffield with rotherham, leeds with bradford and birmingham and solihull. and i will be more. we promised investment in every part of britain and that's what i will deliver tomorrow. congress, i know the contribution your members meet to the defence of our country in aerospace, defence, and in shipbuilding. and know that the

first duty of any government is to keep our citizens safe. today we live in a dangerous world. when new threats demand a new response. we are investing in the defence of our country and in the strength of our defence industry, in the good union jobs that come with it and in the communities that rely on them. bringing defence spending up to 2.6% of gdp within two years, investing in a battle ready nation supported by home-grown technologies and investing in british jobs and british industry. including investments that we have set out today in a nuclear defence. in plymouth and in derby, in barrow and elsewhere. if you want a taste of what that can mean the working class communities, look at our plan for barrow. good, proud work for people in barrow building

britain's nuclear submarines, providing training and opportunities for young people. decent pay that flows back into the local economy and high streets and a partnership between the labour council, this labour government and bae systems to invest in the regeneration of the town centre. pride in your work. pride in your community. a strong britain with strong defences resting on the talent, effort and prosperity of working people. but security does not stop with our armed forces. it is about making sure that in a world where energy prices were sent spiralling by events in another part of the world, fragile international supply chains can be easily disrupted, we must be a more self-sufficient nation. we have been reminded forcefully in recent years energy security is

national security. i know gary and the gmb have always understood that. because it is the right choice for jobs in the cost of living, because it is the right choice for economic growth and because it is the right choice for energy security, i can announce today to you that this labour government is investing in the biggest roll-out of nuclear power in a generation. applause this government is giving our full backing to the sizewell c nuclear plants, providing 14.2 million billion pounds to the... producing the energy to power 6 million homes. employing 10,000 people. supporting thousands more jobs across the uk, including one and a half thousand apprenticeships and putting

hundreds of millions of pounds into the supply chain. that's not all, congrats. because this government backed british innovation and because of the potential for faster, cleaner and cheaper energy is there, we will be backing new, smaller modular reactors, investing in the technology and the rapid deployment of fusion technology, backing our world leading fusion plant in nottinghamshire. providing a route for the private sector advance nuclear projects to be deployed here in the uk, bringing the jobs to britain. the international energy agency estimates that it will be worth 520 billion by 2030. if we want the jobs and the wealth and lead the world, then we must act today and we are. to start, that means investing 2.5 billion to enable one of the

first small modular reactor programmes, supporting 3000 jobs in the east midlands in the process. the first step towards our ambition for a full fleet of small modular reactions to meat reactors across the country. i can tell you today that following a two-year competition, we have selected the company to partner with great british nuclear, that preferred partner is rolls-royce, a great british business based in derby. applause and congress, i can tell you now that taken together with tomorrow public spending review, it sets out over 30 billion of investment in nuclear power future. this government is launching a new era of nuclear power here in britain.

applause and as we build, for transport, for jobs, for energy, that will mean jobs in british supply chains our young people. today's announcements are another step towards the great british nuclear ambition, to make sure that 70% of its future fleet is made here with home-grown content. we have already taken steps to modernise our approach to public procurement with simpler rules and a focus on growth here at home. and we will look to go even further, to reform and streamline those procurement processes. because our industrial ambitions rely on the ambitions and talents of our young people, we will break down the barriers that those young people face in getting the skills and opportunities they want and deserve. and a strong national encounter me, investing in nuclear, new

transport and new military hardware will mean something else. new orders for steel. steel made in britain. applause in april, as the government, we faced a choice. to allow british steel in scunthorpe to go under. or to intervene in a way that british governments have been too reluctant to do for far too long. i was not prepared to tolerate a situation in which britain's steel capacity was fundamentally undermined. in which our infrastructure, our industries, our security would become dependent on imported steel. and i was not prepared to see another working class community lose the pride, looser prosperity and the dignity that industry provides.

so this labour government intervened to save british steel and thousands of jobs that go with it. applause and i can tell you today that the package that i have set out will provide more than £420 million of additional funding for sheffield ford masses. for the production of nuclear grade steel for our nuclear ambitions. thriving steel, thriving defence and thriving energy industries with made in britain a mark of quality around the world. industries that bring pride and good work, wages that flow back onto our high streets and into our communities. once again, things made in britain, things made to last. applause congress, i know whose side i am on. i know whose side this government is on. we promise

you a government in the service of working people. a government backing britain's industry, backing britain's jobs and backing britain's workers. consider that a promise made and a promise cap. thank you, congrats. applause that was rachel reeves, the chancellor confirming government investment in sizewell c, the new nuclear power station in suffolk. she talked about the biggest roll-out of nuclear power for a generation. it will be £14.2 billion for that sizewell station. it will take at least ten years to complete an generate enough electricity for 600 million homes. -- six million homes. the last investment of that size was in the 70s. that will come up in a spending review for tomorrow, investment in security, health

and economy. she talked about the investment beings some of the largest investment in public services in 1970s, hundred and 13 billion in new vestments. we turn to our breaking news from austria where local media and police are reporting several people killed in an attack on the school in the south of the school. the police have confirmed that several people have been killed in this attack. our correspondent bethany bell is on the way to the scene and gave us this update. what the police have said officially so far is at around ten o'clock local time, they started an operation around a secondary school in the southern town of graz and they, according to media reports, shots had been heard from the school. the interior ministry says that they feared to be a

number of dead people, including the person carried out the attack. the austrian broadcasting corporation reports are a police spokesman said the perpetrator appears to have killed himself. the reports we are getting are that there are a number of people badly injured, including both pupils and teachers. and bethany, tal is a bit about the police operation. i understand it is ongoing in the area. yes, apparently what we understand as they are evacuating the school building, there are a lot of police forces there including special units and the police have asked all the people around and about to avoid the school and obey the advice of security forces. this is a large police operation, we are told in graz with a number of dead feared. and just to

give us an idea of the area, is graz quite a big city? a very big city in austria, south of vienna and this is a big secondary school we understand in the dreierschuetzengasse. we understand that according to media reports, the school, a pupil at the school appears to have shot in the school. since we spoke to bethany, police have confirmed that several people have been killed in that school shooting. we have had a spokesperson talking a little while earlier. let me bring you what he said, he said we cannot yet confirm or determine whether we are talking about one attacker or more at this point. but we can say the situation is now under control and there is no further danger to the public. the school kids have been evacuated and are taking refuge nearby. their parents are at a gathering point and there are crisis

management teams at both locations, even those who have not been physically harmed. but still there are several fatalities. police confirming several fatalities

around 11 billion litres of sewage is treated by water companies every day in the uk - but there are growing concerns about the waste it creates. sewage sludge is often used by farmers as cheap fertilizer but recent studies have shown it often contains harmful chemicals linked to cancer. our environment correspondent jonah fisher has this report. the spreading of muck is a familiar sight - and smell - in the countryside. most of it comes from animals, but some of it... ..has origins much closer to home. about 3.5 million tonnes

of sewage sludge - made mostly from treated human poo - is spread on farmers' fields every year. judy, guy and richard live in devon. they tell me they've all experienced it being spread near their homes. this sewage sludge takes on a whole new meaning. it is like the smell of death when it gets spread. isn't this just part and parcel of living in the country? sewage sludge is different. it is not...cow muck. it's industrial waste. you're a farmer - why are other farmers putting it on their fields? it's free - which you'd think you might sort of raise an eyebrow at. so this is a smelly pile of the sewage sludge. water companies need to get rid of it, and farmers - well, they're interested in a cheap source of fertiliser. it may seem a perfect match, but more and more questions are being asked about exactly what is being spread

on farmers' fields. in particular, the presence of microplastics, and a group of chemicals which don't break down easily in nature. i think my biggest worry is the forever chemicals. these are substances that we know are in sewage sludge. we know they're applied to land. we know that it can be accumulated into crops. but we don't really know what the health effects are. there is a concern that it could be affecting our immune system, it could be causing things like cancers - and that would be over a long-term exposure. this isn't news to the government or the environment agency - this report they paid for eight years ago found microplastics and forever chemicals in sludge that it said may present a risk to human health. but the regular testing regime still doesn't include them, because it hasn't been updated since 1989.

in an email to the bbc, emma howard boyd - the former chair of the environment agency - said it was an unacceptable situation, and that the ea has been pushing ever since to update the regulations. she said there was a consistent failure by successive secretaries of state to take the matter seriously. the water companies know they could soon have a big problem. we were shown reports and emails obtained through freedom of information requests - where they worried they might soon have nowhere to put their sewage sludge. this is what we put on our ground to grow our veg. this is green-waste compost. there's only plant matter in here. and would you have a problem with putting human poo on your fields? i think using properly treated human sewage to spread on the land, put it back into the ground for growing food in the uk - that's the right thing to do. hugh fearnley-whittingstall has signed a letter that's been made public today, demanding that better testing

of sewage sludge be made a priority by the government. for a long time, it's been a dirty secret that nobody knew about, and that suited both the polluting companies and the water companies who take their materials, not to speak about it, just to take the money and do what they do. and it suited a busy government to turn a blind eye, but it's cracked wide open now, we know it's happening, our farmers are rightly worried. we've got to take action. government has got to take action. they've got to do it now. neither the water companies or the government agreed to be interviewed on this topic. water uk said in a statement there were some concerns over contaminants, but that it was up to the government to agree standards and rules. the department of environment, food and rural affairs said the matter is currently under review. jonah fisher, bbc news. let's speak to georgia elliot-smith - founder of the campaign group fighting dirty. thank you for being with us. i

wonder if you can give us an idea initially of how widespread it is? the problem here is absolutely mind blowing. we are talking about 3.5 million tonnes of sewage sludge every year that is being applied on millions of hectares of uk farmland. and what are the main concerns? some have been outlined in the report, but what are you most worried about? the big concern we have is the sludge regulations had not been updated since the 1980s. the problem is, since the 1980s, the number and complexity and toxicity of the substances that are getting into the sewage sludge has changed massively. now what we are looking at is an enormous problem of essentially toxic hazardous waste being spread on our farm land and research shows that this is getting into our food crops. also, the constant application of chemicals and the micro plastics that are now in their

sludge are making soil unfit fair agriculture. this is a problem that really is about food security, the environment and human health. you talked about toxicity there. what evidence is there that this is affecting our health? there has been research out for a number of years showing that forever chemicals lead to all kinds of types of cancer, birth defects and miscarriages, as well as other health problems. the researchers out there. there is also research from the state showing that these sewage sludge contaminated with these pollutants also allow the toxins to get into the food crop. so without proper regulation and acceptance by the environment minister that this needs to be updated and we need to now be testing... sorry to interrupt you. thank you very much for talking to us

about that. i just want to recap for you the situation in austria. we are getting reports of several people have been killed in the attack on a school, shooting at the school and police are saying that the operation is now under way, the situation is under control. they have deployed a police helicopter and they had the situation on the ground under control, but students and teachers are believed to be among the casualties after gunshots at the dreierschuetzengasse high school and this is in the austrian city of graz. several people, according to the police have been killed. they have not confirmed a number. there have been different numbers coming out from austrian media. so far, no confirmation on the number of fatalities in the school shooting. the other reporters that the shooter himself has apparently taken his own life. more details coming on that school shooting

in austria. stay with us here in

live from london. this is bbc news several people have been reported killed and others injured at a shooting at a school in the austrian city of graz. 15 people have been killed in another shooting at an eight back distribution point in gaza. thousands more national guards on hundreds of marines deployed in los angeles as protests over immigration enforcement continue. the government confirmed the uk first british owned nuclear power plant in 30 years. ministers have been accused of not coming clean about the total cost. president zelensky called for a response from europe and the us after its capital and edessa came under russian drone attacks.